Properties of Life
Chapter 1 of the text highlights the nine properties of life. Briefly describe each of the nine properties and discuss how things like a virus, prion, and viroid can reproduce, but are not considered to be alive. Address the question: how can things like these that are not considered to be alive "evolve"?
Your assignment should be 250 words in length
DNA and RNA
Compare and contrast DNA and RNA. Discuss why humans did not evolve with one central repository of DNA, but rather it is replicated throughout the body?
Your assignment should be 250 words in length.
Genetic Drift and the Founder Effect
There are two types of genetic drift. Describe and give an example of both the bottle neck effect and the founder effect.
Your assignment should be 250 words in length.